The Socialist front-runner wants to renegotiate the euro's fiscal compact.

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Five Polish men have been convicted of carrying out the theft on behalf of a Swedish man, Anders Hoegstroem, who helped found the far-right National Socialist Front party in Sweden in 1994.

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One sign of this is that, according to the new poll, their voting intentions for next year's presidential elections have barely shifted since the arrest, leaving Ricardo Lagos, the Socialist candidate, way out in front.

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Such was the support for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front leader, that he evicted the Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin, in the first round.

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In practice, Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer and controversial Freedom Party front man Geert Wilders share two critical positions: both are eurosceptic, both pro-welfare.

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The current front-runner is Oleksandr Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party.

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